a3620
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I hate it when someone turns up out of the blue expecting something for nothing, but I’m really sorry to say that’s what I’m doing here.
While desperately trying to avoid a trip to the scrap yard, I stumbled across this forum in a frantic search to find a seemingly insignificant but crucial part for my beloved Hoover Logic 1300.
Let me explain. Sometime back in the 1990’s, before my wife and I got together, she bought her first and only washing machine: a second hand Hoover Logic 1300 A3620 (built around 1985)
After we were married, we set up home together and started a family etc. In all this time the Hoover has been faithfully working away in the corner. It must have washed thousands and thousands of loads.
Apart from a new motor in 2000, then a drum spider and bearings around 2008, it has been really reliable and we have become quite attached to the old girl.
I recently started to notice the 11 year old drum bearings are beginning to grumble again, so I need to swap them. I am a fairly accomplished mechanic and can do most repairs myself, but unfortunately the machine is now so old that I am struggling to source spare parts.
However, the main problem I now have, is the small toothed rubber band that displays the timer position has just snapped. It seems trivial, but it is almost impossible to use the machine without knowing which program is set.
I removed the front panel and dismantled the small pulleys etc, and found the band has snapped with age. As an interim fix, I superglued it and its working again ..but for how long?
Sadly, if I cannot replace the timer pointer belt, then I don’t see much point swapping the bearings and with a heavy heart the machine will be scrapped for the sake of this tiny rubber belt.
So my question is: is there anyone out there who knows where I might get a Hoover Logic dial pointer band?
By the way, if I can get the parts, is anyone interested in pictures showing how to dismantle the timer pointer and change a drum spider and bearings?
While desperately trying to avoid a trip to the scrap yard, I stumbled across this forum in a frantic search to find a seemingly insignificant but crucial part for my beloved Hoover Logic 1300.
Let me explain. Sometime back in the 1990’s, before my wife and I got together, she bought her first and only washing machine: a second hand Hoover Logic 1300 A3620 (built around 1985)
After we were married, we set up home together and started a family etc. In all this time the Hoover has been faithfully working away in the corner. It must have washed thousands and thousands of loads.
Apart from a new motor in 2000, then a drum spider and bearings around 2008, it has been really reliable and we have become quite attached to the old girl.
I recently started to notice the 11 year old drum bearings are beginning to grumble again, so I need to swap them. I am a fairly accomplished mechanic and can do most repairs myself, but unfortunately the machine is now so old that I am struggling to source spare parts.
However, the main problem I now have, is the small toothed rubber band that displays the timer position has just snapped. It seems trivial, but it is almost impossible to use the machine without knowing which program is set.
I removed the front panel and dismantled the small pulleys etc, and found the band has snapped with age. As an interim fix, I superglued it and its working again ..but for how long?
Sadly, if I cannot replace the timer pointer belt, then I don’t see much point swapping the bearings and with a heavy heart the machine will be scrapped for the sake of this tiny rubber belt.
So my question is: is there anyone out there who knows where I might get a Hoover Logic dial pointer band?
By the way, if I can get the parts, is anyone interested in pictures showing how to dismantle the timer pointer and change a drum spider and bearings?
